Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches

Meetings are quarterly, they are usually held at 7.30pm at the Civic Centre unless otherwise stated, as the Royal British Legion Hall, Crouch End, has closed down. Meetings are held normally on a Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on the availability of the venue. The invitation to these meeting is extended to all Haringey Neighbourhood Watch Coordinators and members.

Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches Meeting.

The Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches would like to invite you to attend their next meeting.

Date: Wednesday 7th March 2012
Venue: Turkish Cypriot Community Centre, 628-630 Green Lanes, N8 0SD
Time: 7.30pm

Please note this meeting has been rescheduled from the original February date and is being held at a new venue which has good transport links. Directions and a map are shown on the second page of the agenda.

There will be a very interesting guest from the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, who will be giving a presentation on their work in Haringey, followed by a questions and answers session.

Police Inspector Forde will be on hand with an update on Safer Neighbourhoods Teams and to answer any of your questions.

Please feel free to invite and bring along members of your Watch.

I look forward to seeing you on 7th March.

Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches Meeting.

This meeting was on Tuesday 13th December 2011, at 7.30pm.

Please find linked the Agenda for the Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches meeting that is taking place on Tuesday 13th December.

We have the pleasure of welcoming Peter Gazey, our guest speaker from the charity Crisis who will be talking about the fantastic work they do with the homeless, not only at Christmas, but all year around.

As always Police Inspector John Forde will be on hand to answer any of your questions and give you an update on the Safer Neighbourhoods Teams.

The meeting is open to all Neighbourhood Watch coordinators and members, so please do join us on 13th December for a festive cup of tea and a mince pie.

The venue is served by good, regular bus services that stop either outside or a few minutes walk away. It only takes 20 minutes to get to the venue from Turnpike Lane bus garage. Please see the reverse of the agenda for a map and details of how to get there. For those of you coming by car, there is street parking available. I look forward to seeing you on 13th December. <>

Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches Meeting.

As you will see from the agenda, this will be a very interesting meeting and is very relevant to Haringey and recent events that have taken place.

Please note that the meeting will start a little earlier at 7pm as we do have a very full itinerary.

The first part of the meeting will be a presentation by the Police Counter Terrorism Command about terrorism and extremism and how this relates to Haringey.

The second part of the meeting will be dedicated to the recent disturbances on our borough. We have a speaker from the Police Territorial Support Group (TSG) that covers Haringey, who will explain about their role and their involvement in recent incidents. There will be a question and answer session after the presentation.

Police Inspector John Forde will give an update on Safer Neighbourhoods Teams; this will also be an open forum and an opportunity for you to ask questions.

This meeting is open to all Haringey Neighbourhood Watch coordinators; you are welcome to bring along members of your Watch.

Please do try to come along to this meeting. The venue is served by good, regular bus services that stop either outside or a few minutes walk away. It only takes 20 minutes to get to the venue from Turnpike Lane bus garage. Please see the reverse of the agenda for a map and details of how to get there. For those of you coming by car, there is street parking available.

Minutes of June Meeting.

Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches Meeting

Tuesday 14th June at 7.30pm

St Andrew’s Centre, Alexandra Park Road.

Please follow this link to the agenda for the next Association of Neighbourhood Watches meeting.

The guest speaker will be Mike Bagnall, the manager of the council’s Anti-Social Behaviour Team. This will be your opportunity to hear how the council, in partnership with the police, is tackling anti-social behaviour problems in Haringey. A question and answers session will following this presentation.

Police inspector John Forde will also be hosting an 'openspace' forum that will include Safer Neighbourhoods Teams and Neighbourhood Watch updates and any issues that you wish to discuss.

These quarterly meetings are an ideal way to meet other coordinators from across our borough, learn more about Neighbourhood Watch, and find out what is going on in Haringey.

All are welcome and I look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible.

With best wishes

Pauline.

Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches Annual General Meeting

on Tuesday 15th March at 7pm until 9pm 2011.

Council Chambers, 1st Floor, Civic Centre, Wood Green.

AGENDA

This meeting will also be our Annual General Meeting (AGM) where we will be electing a new committee and Association officials. If you are interested in joining us on the committee please complete the attached nomination form and return it to Pauline by 10th March. From the newly formed committee members the following positions will then be elected by a show of hands from each of the Respective Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinators or their representative:

Our guest speakers at this meeting will be Safer Neighbourhoods Chief Inspector Sonia Davis and Enid Ledgister from the Haringey Community & Police Consultative Group (CPCG), and as always we have Inspector John Forde with the latest news about Neighbourhood Watch and ready to take your questions.

Feedback by way of suggestions for future topics and the conduct of the meetings, or any other useful suggestions, is always welcome. Thank you for your ongoing support and commitment! I would also like to thank Pauline for her tireless dedication and hard work.

I look forward to seeing as many of you and your members there as possible.

Yours sincerely,

Robert How.
Acting Chair, Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches.

Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches Quarterly Meeting.

Tuesday 9th November.

CIVIC CENTRE (The Canteen), WOOD GREEN, at 7.30PM

DEDICATED TO RALPH CRISP

AGENDA

Minutes

1. Introductions & Apologies For Absence

2. Minutes Of Last Meeting And Matters Arising

3. Vice Chair, Robert How

4. Guest Speaker: Amanda Kilbey, Emergency Planning Officer Haringey Council.

5. Refreshments

6. Police Insp. John Forde and Interim Chairman Robert How:

NEXT MEETING
This will be the AGM, proposed date to be confirmed;
Tuesday 8th February 2011

Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches Quarterly Meeting

Wednesday 8th September.

Please see Agenda

Minutes for May 2010 meeting as a Word document

On behalf of the Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches, I would like to invite all Neighbourhood Watch coordinators and members to attend the next meeting on Wednesday 8th September at 7.30pm at the Wood Green Civic Centre. It is a great way to meet and share ideas with other Neighbourhood Watch coordinators, and also put your questions to senior police officers. You are most welcome to bring along members of your Watch.

Georgia Forde, the senior enforcement officer for Haringey Trading Standards will be speaking about rogue traders / doorstep crime and you will also have the opportunity to meet and put questions to the new Safer Neighbourhoods Chief Inspector, Sonia Davis.

Ralph Crisp, the Chairman of the Association, sends his apologies and will not be at this meeting. Ralph was taken ill at the end of June and is slowly but surely making a recovery. We will still have a ‘Crisp’ family representative at the meeting as Jonathan, Ralph’s son, will be attending and taking minutes.

I look forward to seeing you on 8th September.

Yours sincerely

Pauline Syddell
Neighbourhood Watch Link Manager,
On behalf of the Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches.

Haringey Borough

Metphone: 776803
Phone: +44 (0)20 8721 6803
E-mail: admin@haringeynhw.org.uk

QUARTERLY MEETING & AGM

Tuesday, 18th May 2010

CIVIC CENTRE, The Canteen, WOOD GREEN, N22.

at 7.30PM

Dear Co-ordinator,

Please find attached the Agenda for the next meeting of the Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches on Tuesday, 18th May 2010, together with the minutes of the last meeting. You will see from the Agenda that this will also be our AGM. If you have any suggestions or issues that you would like raised, please do not hesitate to contact me in advance.

At this meeting our key speakers will be our Borough Commander, Ch Supt Dave Grant and Sgt. Nathan Holland.

Sgt. Nathan Holland is a member of the comparatively new Safer Transport Team, whose role is to to ensure your safety whilst using public transport in Haringey. This will be an ideal opportunity to learn more and ask questions about the Team's work.

As always we will also be fortunate to have the irrepressible Insp. John Forde with the latest news about Neighbourhood Watch and ready to take your questions.

I look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible. If you cannot attend and you wish to send or bring along additional members from your watch, they will be very welcome. Feedback by way of suggestions for future topics and the conduct of the meetings, or any other useful criticism, is always welcome.

Yours sincerely,

Ralph Crisp,

Chair, Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches.

CONTACT:

phone: 020 8374 9139
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QUARTERLY MEETING

Wednesday 10th February, 2010

CIVIC CENTRE, The Canteen, WOOD GREEN, N22.

at 7.30PM

Firstly, please accept my apology for the late delivery of this Agenda for the next meeting of the Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches on Wednesday 10th February, together with the minutes of the last meeting, especially as I know that some of you were keen to receive the minutes as soon as possible. Unfortunately I had to abandon my desk to have an operation which involved a ten day stay in hospital. Good news is that, although I am still mending, it appears to have been very successful and I am looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our next meeting.

Secondly, I'd like to apologise for the fact that at the last meeting, which those of you present will recall was very busy, I omitted to pay a tribute to Eric Beck, who has stood down after six years as NW Co-ordinator for GMTRA, and has been a regular attender and contributor to our meetings. In his letter informing us, Eric wrote "I have been very impressed by the expanding Neighbourhood Watches in Haringey and the mutual benefits to and from the SNTs with the consequent good relations and excellent policing in our ward." I believe that this is a true reflection of the state of Neighbourhood Watch throughout Haringey, and as a result of the continued hard work of Pauline Syddell together with our SNTs, Neighbourhood Watch continues to expand, and now stands at a total of 254 Watches, an all time high! So many thanks to Eric for his hard work and commitment and all best wishes for the future.

Also we had a record high attendance at the last meeting, with excellent speakers and lots of interesting questioning. In spite of the lateness off these notices, I hope we can sustain your interest for this coming meeting, when again we will have the Borough Commander, Ch. Supt. Dave Grant, giving us the lowdown on what is happening in Haringey and taking your questions, together with Det. Insp. Dan Smith from SCD2, presenting the work of the Sapphire Unit, which deals with sex crimes.

I will also ensure that there is sufficient time for you to raise questions about your neighbourhood watch issues with Insp. John Forde.

If you cannot attend and you wish to send or bring along additional members from your watch, they will be very welcome.

You will see that we have a much shorter agenda than previously to ensure there will be more time for you to raise issues and ask questions.

As always, feedback by way of suggestions for future topics and the conduct of the meetings, or any other useful criticism, is always welcome.

Yours sincerely,

Ralph Crisp,

Chair, Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches.

QUARTERLY MEETING
Tuesday 24th November, 2009
CIVIC CENTRE, WOOD GREEN, N22 at 7.30PM.

Dear Coordinator,

No doubt some or many will have seen last week's news about a blind woman's guide dog being savaged by a terrier-type dog at a railway station.

For more information go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8368548.stm

There have also been two other ‘status dog’ articles this month, which are of interest.

Please see http://tinyurl.com/ygxsc9a

and also http://tinyurl.com/ykc5fey

All this makes our speakers at tomorrow'’s Quarterly Meeting of the Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches particularly topical and pertinent, as many of you have expressed concerns about ‘status dogs’. (That must certainly be a misnomer as, in my view, they do not confer any status on the owners.)

Along with Sgt. Ian McParland, from the Met Police Status Dog Unit, there will also be present Ms Claire Robinson, RSPCA Government Relations Manager - she deals with dog related legislation in Parliament and their 'Status Dog' strategy. She is also the main author of the DEFRA 'Guidance for enforcers'. Along with our Borough Commander, Ch Supt. Dave Grant, this should make for a very interesting meeting.

I hope to see as many of you there as possible but if you are unable to attend, then perhaps you could try to arrange for another member from your watch to come in your place, or with you if you are attending.

Yours sincerely,

Ralph Crisp,
Chair, Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches

Dear Co-ordinator,

Please find below, the Agenda for the next meeting of the Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches together with the minutes of the last meeting. If you wish to bring along additional member(s) from your watch, they will be very welcome.

You will see that we have a much shorter agenda than previously to ensure there will be more time for you to raise issues and ask questions.

We also have managed to arrange for Sgnt. Ian McParland from the Met’s Status Dog Unit to do a presentation on dangerous dogs, an issue that has become a matter of considerable concern to some of you.

Opportunities highlighted from the minutes of the last meeting.

Supt. Dave Grant spoke passionately about how he considers his work to be the best job in the world, and stated that he is actively trying to recruit special constables. Age need not be a barrier as typical recruits range from late teens/early twenties to mid-forties. So if you or someone you know are looking for something extra in life and are interested, make contact with Pauline Syddell or myself and we can point you in the right direction.

One of our other guest speakers, Linda Logan J.P. from Magistrates in the Community (the MAGIC Group) made an appeal for opportunities to present their work to other groups, so if you would like to learn more about their work they would be very pleased to speak at one of your watch meetings. To be put in touch, again please contact Pauline or myself.

AGENDA.

Quarterly Meeting of the Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches

This was at 7.30pm on WEDNESDAY, 9th SEPTEMBER, 2009. at the Civic Centre,
High Road,
Wood Green, N22 8LE.

More time was dedicated to OPENSPACE – Haringey’s Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinators Forum (including SNT & NHW updates & Sector Report, with Insp. JOHN FORDE). This was your opportunity to ask questions and learn more about Neighbourhood Watch.

Dear Co-ordinator,

Firstly please accept my apology for the length of this message but I do hope that you will take the time to read it, especially the last paragraph.

Please find the Agenda for the September 2009 meeting of the Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches. The minutes of the June AGM is also below

‘Past on Your Doorstep, Future in Your Hands’, (1.92MB) a document produced by Groundwork and mentioned by Judy Hallgarten at the last meeting – well worth taking a look at.
Swine Flu update August 2009 from Cllr Nilgun Canver.

The June meeting was very well attended and by all accounts was considered to have been very successful. North Bank was an excellent venue but an awkward location to get to. However, I am very pleased to be able to report that, in spite of the location, we had many new co-ordinators attending for the first time, particularly from the east of the borough and hopefully they felt that it was a rewarding evening.

The main focus of the meeting was on young people. (Ch. Insp. Dave Mann stated that the term ‘young people’ is preferable, to the word ‘youths’ which now has very negative associations.) The main criticism of the meeting was that we had too many speakers for the available time and not enough time was available for a general open discussion regarding Neighbourhood Watch issues.

Feedback by way of suggestions for future topics and the conduct of the meetings, or any other useful criticism, is always welcome.

So for this next meeting there will be fewer speakers and agenda items and more talk-time for co-ordinators. Also the meeting is being held more centrally, at the Civic Centre, Wood Green.

We have been very fortunate in that the Borough Commander, Ch Supt Dave Grant has been a regular speaker at our meetings and is always happy to take questions. He attended again on 9th September.

The other main speakers were Kevin Fitzpatrick JP, Chairman, Haringey Magistrates in the Community Group, who together with colleagues Linda Logan JP & Sheila Smith JP talked about their work and presented a sentencing exercise.

We also had a short presentation from Ch. Insp. Jon Williams on the ‘Policing Pledge’.

OPENSPACE - Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinators Forum (including SNT & NHW updates & Sector Report, with Insp. JOHN FORDE).

These meetings are an ideal opportunity to meet other co-ordinators, to learn more about Neighbourhood Watch and what is going on in Haringey.

FINALLY, Please note AOB in the minutes.

Meetings.

Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches Meeting.

Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches Meeting.

Haringey Association of Neighbourhood Watches Meeting.

Tuesday 14th June at 7.30pm St Andrew’s Centre, Alexandra Park Road.

on Tuesday 15th March at 7pm until 9pm 2011.

Council Chambers, 1st Floor, Civic Centre, Wood Green.